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Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson through to the final!
Adrian Lewis and defending champion Gary Anderson will meet in Sunday’s final of the 2016 PDC William Hill World Darts Championship after both won their semi-final matches in comfortable fashion.
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Klaasen managed to win his seventh leg of the match by taking out 85, but he was forced to watch as Anderson won the next three legs, booking his spot in the final in a whitewash.
The Scottish sensation, who has dropped just two sets on his way to the final, executed a flawless leg to clinch the first set and never looked back, reeling off six consecutive sets to move within one more win of successfully defending his title.
A fourth 121 finish of the match helped Van Barneveld even up the scores and he then edged into a 4-3 lead which Smith valiantly wiped out.
However, there was to be no repeat of Van Barneveld’s quarter-final comeback against Michael Smith as “Jackpot” Lewis eventually regained composure following the interval at the end of the eighth set.
Van Barneveld came from three sets down and recovered from falling two legs behind in the ninth set, surviving a match dart as he reached his third Ally Pally semi-final in four years. Wright had one dart at double top to pull it back to 4-3 but missed it.
After notching seven successive treble 20s, he hit a treble 19 and then double 12 for his place in darting history.
Anderson says he is looking forward to exacting revenge on Lewis for that defeat five years ago: “That (defeat) still hurts, and it might do tomorrow as well, but I am going to give it a good go”.
The Netherlands’s most successful player hit two 161 checkouts in his gallant attempt at a comeback after a memorable run which will see him return to the top ten in the PDC Order of Merit after the tournament.
Anderson defeated Wade 5-1 with an average of over 105 as he coasted to victory.
Just over two weeks since the start of the PDC World Championships and four big guns met in the PDC semi finals on Saturday evening at the Alexandra Palace. When I was 3-0 down it felt like it wasn’t going to happen.
But the Englishman – who was tipped out of last year’s tournament by van Barnevald – managed to seal the win and enter his third World Championship final.
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“I feel very embarrassed and humiliated myself”.